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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another. There is an alternative to the fragmented work process, and it allows us to be faster, cheaper, and better.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. Goals must have a specific time period And now for some subtle nuances that will help make your 2011 goals more achievable: 1. So why fight it? Goals must be prominent 9.

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Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. And the situation seems to be worsening. Articulate values and set expectations.

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My Dad Built a Garage, And I Got A Lesson Of A Lifetime

Terry Starbucker

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! Your dad as much as anything probably just enjoyed being around you during the process! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. All rights reserved.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Inspiring Employees with a Values-Rich Environment

Strategy Driven

Companies all over the country have implemented Ann Rhoades’ methods, developed when she was an executive at JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and others and perfected at her consulting company, People Ink. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You can’t force culture. You can only create environment. All rights reserved.